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| | Cubby Broccoli - Britmovie Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05) |
 | | Albert Romolo [Cubby] Broccoli (1909-1996), film producer, was born on 5 April 1909 in Hoyt Avenue, Long Island, New York, the son of Giovanni Broccoli (c.1870-c.1932), a labourer, and his wife, Cristina, nee Vence (c.1884-1965), a former cook to H. Marvin, whose Biograph company had discovered the pioneer director D. Griffith. |
 | | Broccoli had contemplated adapting the spy thrillers of Ian Fleming in the late 1950s but it was only after he went into partnership with Canadian producer Harry Saltzman that James Bond finally reached the screen. |
 | | However, it proved to be Broccoli's last involvement with the Bond series, as he died of cardiac problems in Beverly Hills, California, on 27 June 1996, by which time, reportedly, half the world's population had seen a Bond movie. |
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